He has claimed he doesn't let his wife vote and that newly appointed New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern should "get in the kitchen where women belong".

It was a "curse for a nation to have a woman ruling over them", he said.

"She needs to shut up and go home and get in the kitchen where women belong and bake a cake for her boyfriend," Mr Robertson said in a recent sermon.

Pastor Logan Robertson has set up a church in Brisbane.

New Zealand said they took Mr Robertson's anti-gay comments "very seriously", but an investigation was dropped because they found no evidence of a crime.

"We have considered the appropriate legislation and sought a legal opinion on the matter and we are not in a position to pursue the matter any further, as no criminal offence has been committed," a spokesperson told Newshub earlier this year.

The church is an independent organisation that Mr Robertson founded.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, he said he would remain pastor at his Auckland church, which would become "a satellite church".

Mr Robertson first hit the headlines in 2014 when he told Christian author Jim Marjoram he would pray for his suicide because he was gay.